The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use (🔥 Score: 157+ in 3 hours)
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Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
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NY Times
Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.
Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300.
Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
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GitHub
GitHub - marv1nnnnn/llm-min.txt: Min.js Style Compression of Tech Docs for LLM Context
Min.js Style Compression of Tech Docs for LLM Context - marv1nnnnn/llm-min.txt
A leap year check in three instructions (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
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hueffner.de
A leap year check in three instructions
How to test for leap years (until year 102499) in the proleptic Gregorian calendar with just three 32-bit instructions, with detailed explanation of the bit-level tricks.
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix (🔥 Score: 155+ in 3 hours)
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The Register
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
: Failure could've triggered a small explosion
Ollama's new engine for multimodal models (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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Ollama
Ollama's new engine for multimodal models· Ollama Blog
Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries, and nobody cares (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
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zverok.space
BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries, and nobody cares
Silent changes in payment methods on big creator funding platforms raise some unpleasant questions.
Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017) (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
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Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
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After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain (🔥 Score: 157+ in 2 hours)
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Albertofortin
After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain • albertofortin.com
I've been building MVPs and SaaS products for 15 years. Let's work together on your next project.
A $130M company faked trials instead of running our free OSS (🔥 Score: 183+ in 46 minutes)
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Virtualize
Ground control to Major Trial
When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.
Tek – A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
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Codeberg.org
tek
🦀 a colorful music making program for your linux terminal 🦀
Material 3 Expressive (❄️ Score: 156+ in 2 days)
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Google Design
Expressive Design: Google's UX Research - Google Design
Google's research reveals how expressive design improves UX, usability, and evokes positive emotions in users
Sci-Net (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
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The first year of free-threaded Python (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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labs.quansight.org
The first year of free-threaded Python
A recap of the first year of work on enabling support for the free-threaded build of CPython in community packages.
A Research Preview of Codex (🔥 Score: 159+ in 1 hour)
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Openai
Introducing Codex
Introducing Codex: a cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel, powered by codex-1. With Codex, developers can simultaneously deploy multiple agents to independently handle coding tasks such as writing features, answering…
The Awful German Language (1880) (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
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What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for? (❄️ Score: 152+ in 3 days)
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The Old New Thing
What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for? - The Old New Thing
Tallying them up.
Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
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GitHub
ollama doesn't distribute notice licenses in its release artifacts · Issue #3185 · ollama/ollama
What is the issue? ollama uses projects like llama.cpp as a statically linked dependency. The terms of the MIT license require that it distribute the copyright notice in both source and binary form...
Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models (Score: 151+ in 23 hours)
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Windsurf
SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models
Introducing our first Frontier Models!